Patents Examined by Kashif Siddiqui
  • Patent number: 11178689
    Abstract: A user apparatus that communicates with a base station apparatus is provided. The user apparatus includes a reception unit configured to receive, from the base station apparatus, an indication for an individual random access preamble, information indicating correspondence to non-contention based random access procedure, and a random access response; a transmission unit configured to transmit the individual random access preamble to the base station apparatus; and a control unit configured to, in response to receiving the random access response to the individual random access preamble, the random access response being transmitted from the base station apparatus, determine whether the random access procedure has been successfully completed based on the information indicating correspondence to the non-contention based random access procedure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Hideaki Takahashi, Tooru Uchino, Naoto Ookubo, Ryusuke Matsukawa
  • Patent number: 11172483
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure describe determining an uplink channel raster for determining frequency location of an uplink channel over which to transmit uplink communications to a base station. Uplink communications can be transmitted to the base station over the uplink channel. The uplink channel raster can be shifted, in frequency, with respect to a legacy uplink channel raster of a legacy communication technology to facilitate coexistence, in an uplink carrier, of the uplink channel and one or more uplink channels of the legacy communication technology.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Peter Gaal, Haitong Sun, Heechoon Lee, Wanshi Chen, Hung Ly, Joseph Binamira Soriaga, Yeliz Tokgoz
  • Patent number: 11172418
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment may obtain channel load information that is associated with identifying a channel load for one or more cells operating in unlicensed spectrum. The user equipment may perform a cell reselection procedure using a particular cell selected from a plurality of cells based at least in part on the channel load for the one or more cells. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Ozcan Ozturk, Xiaoxia Zhang, Jing Sun
  • Patent number: 11166087
    Abstract: A first computing device may receive an indication of user input that is at least a part of a conversation between a user and a first assistant executing at the first computing device. The first assistant and/or an assistant executing at a digital assistant system may determine whether to handoff the conversation from the first assistant executing at the first computing device to a second assistant executing at a second computing device. In response to determining to handoff the conversation to the second assistant executing at the second computing device, the first assistant and/or the assistant executing at the digital assistant system may send to the second computing device a request to handoff the conversation which includes at least an indication of the conversation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Andrea Terwisscha van Scheltinga, Zaheed Sabur, Michael Reutov, Pratik Gilda
  • Patent number: 11166190
    Abstract: A buffer state reporting method, a UE, a method of processing a buffer state report and a network side device are provided. The buffer state reporting method includes: determining, by the UE, whether a buffer state reporting triggering condition is met; and reporting, by the UE, buffer state information to a network side device if the buffer state reporting triggering condition is met, wherein buffer state information of a plurality of logical channels corresponding to a same bearer for which a data packet duplication mode is configured/activated are reported separately.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: DATANG MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yali Zhao
  • Patent number: 11159986
    Abstract: Provided in the present disclosure are an unlicensed spectrum access method and device, and a transmission node. The access method includes: determining, by a transmission node, an access manner of an unlicensed spectrum and an access parameter corresponding to the access manner according to a preset condition, the preset condition comprising at least one of followings: a transmission parameter for information transmitted over the unlicensed spectrum, a type of the information, a grade corresponding to the transmission node, and an access signaling; and accessing, by the transmission node, the unlicensed spectrum according to the determined access manner and access parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: XI'AN ZHONGXING NEW SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Weiwei Yang, Bo Dai
  • Patent number: 11153931
    Abstract: This application describes a data transmission method, a terminal device, and a network device. The method may include determining, by a medium access control (MAC) layer of a terminal device, a first MAC control element and a second MAC control element. The method may also include simultaneously transmitting, by the terminal device, the first MAC control element and the second MAC control element on different uplink transmission resources. The data transmission method, the terminal device, and the network device in embodiments of this application help to improve data transmission reliability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Bin Xu, Zhenzhen Cao, Bingzhao Li, Li Chai, Wei Quan
  • Patent number: 11146983
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method for controlling network congestion, a terminal device, and a network device, a congestion control mechanism can be performed when a state of the terminal device changes, thereby a purpose of controlling network congestion when the state of the terminal device changes is achieved. The method includes that the terminal device performs the congestion control mechanism when the state of the terminal device changes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Jianhua Liu
  • Patent number: 11147060
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may transmit, to a base station (BS), panel information associated with identifying one or more characteristics associated with a plurality of antenna panels. In some aspects, the UE may receive, from the BS, a panel configuration message identifying a panel configuration to indicate one or more antenna panels, of the plurality of antenna panels, that the UE is to use for communication. In some aspects, the UE may communicate with the BS in accordance with the panel configuration. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Wooseok Nam, Tao Luo, Yan Zhou
  • Patent number: 11147096
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. More specifically, the present invention relates to a method and a device for transmitting assistance information to a network/base station when a condition is satisfied. Whether the condition is satisfied or not is determined based on scheduling information from the network/base station and control information from another device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jaewook Lee, Youngdae Lee, Jongwoo Hong
  • Patent number: 11139943
    Abstract: A method of receiving Downlink (DL) data by a User Equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system. The method includes: receiving information related to a number of repetitions of the DL data which is repeatedly transmitted in (i) at least one first Transmission Time Interval (TTI) included in a first subframe, and in (ii) at least one second TTI included in a second subframe that is after the first subframe; and receiving the DL data based on the number of repetitions of the DL data. If a Transmission Mode (TM) for the first subframe is different from a TM for the second subframe, then the UE does not receive the DL data in the at least one second TTI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Kyuhwan Kwak, Seungmin Lee, Yunjung Yi, Hyunho Lee
  • Patent number: 11140739
    Abstract: A system (1) is disclosed in which a network entity determines whether a radio bearer should be maintained or released for a communications device (2). The communications device (2) establishes the radio bearer via a base station (5) of the communications system (1) and communicates data using the established radio bearer. The communications device (2) determines whether any further data is to be sent or received and/or whether a user-plane connection is required. The communications device (2) then provides information to the network entity identifying a result of said determination for use in determining whether the radio bearer should be maintained or released.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hayato Haneji, Iskren Ianev, Yannick Lair
  • Patent number: 11140680
    Abstract: A method and device for determining a detection range for a control channel in a multi-beam system are provided. The method includes: a network device sends configuration information to a terminal device, wherein the configuration information is used for the terminal device to determine a time domain resource in which control channel detection is required within a target downlink time period according to the configuration information, and the time domain resource includes multiple time domain scheduling units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventors: Hai Tang, Hua Xu
  • Patent number: 11134000
    Abstract: The subject matter described herein includes methods, systems and computer media for monitoring communications networks using cross-correlation of packet flows. One method for monitoring a communications network using cross-correlation of packet flows includes receiving a plurality of packets copied from a communications network. The method further includes classifying the packets into flows. The method further includes, for at least one of the flows, generating a trace value sequence, where the trace value sequence is sequence of values that characterizes the flow according to a cross-correlation metric. The method further includes performing a frequency domain cross-correlation for the at least one flow using the trace value sequence. The method further includes outputting an indication of a network or flow characteristic based on results of the cross-correlation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: ILLUMINATE TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventor: Douglas John Carson
  • Patent number: 11115342
    Abstract: Examples disclosed herein relate to a method comprising receiving a bidirectional forwarding detection (BFD) packet originating from a first network device, wherein the first linked network device and a second linked network device are part of a link aggregation group running a BFD session. The method may include transmitting, from the first linked network device, a BFD synchronization packet to the second linked network device and receiving, at the second linked network device, the BFD synchronization packet, wherein a time-to-live (TTL) value of the BFD synchronization packet is lower than a BFD TTL supported by the BFD session. The method may also include determining that the BFD synchronization packet is a BFD single-hop packet coming from a VLANs using the active forwarding mode and determining not to discard the BFD synchronization packet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
    Inventors: David Corrales Lopez, Agustin Jose Meneses Fuentes, Vivek Ramamoorthy
  • Patent number: 11116008
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE). An operation method of a base station in a radio communication system and an apparatus therefor are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jinyoung Oh, Hyunseok Ryu, Sungjin Park, Jonghyun Bang, Jeongho Yeo
  • Patent number: 11108519
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for configuring, in a network node of a wireless communication network, a reference signal resource. An example method comprises obtaining a combination of one or more components to be used for a reference signal resource, the one or more components being contained in one or more physical resource blocks of a slot; and indicating, to the one or more wireless devices, the combination of the one or more components in the one or more physical resource blocks that are to be used for the reference signal resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Stephen Grant, Mattias Frenne
  • Patent number: 11109304
    Abstract: A wireless device receives from a first base station, configuration parameters of a plurality of cells. The configuration parameters comprise a first cell group comprising one or more first cells for communication with the first base station, and a second cell group comprising a licensed assisted access (LAA) cell for communication with a second base station. The wireless device receives from the second base station LAA cell signals in a subframe of a plurality of subframes of the LAA cell. The wireless device determines whether the subframe is considered for radio link failure (RLF) detection based on processing the LAA cell signals. The wireless device increments a counter in response to the subframe of the LAA cell being considered for RLF detection, and the wireless device not successfully decoding a control channel in the subframe of the LAA cell. The wireless device detects an RLF based on the counter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: Ofinno, LLC
    Inventor: Esmael Dinan
  • Patent number: 11105884
    Abstract: An exemplary outdoor mobile device real-time location tracking system includes a telemetry system, a digital system, a server system, a camera system, and a demographic information system. The exemplary tracking system uses the digital system to scan the available frequencies. The exemplary tracking system also uses the telemetry system to determine the mobile devices located in a wireless range. The camera system may also be used to visually track the various mobile devices. The digital system initiates soft-handshake with mobile devices that allow the tracking system to obtain information about the mobile devices. With the information derived from the soft-handshake, the exemplary tracking system may utilize the demographic information system to obtain demographic information associated with the various mobile devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: SOCIAL LOCAL, INC.
    Inventor: Julio Jason Dumas
  • Patent number: 11109411
    Abstract: A channel sense method, a network side device, and a terminal includes determining, by a network side device, a first sense resource used by a terminal to perform channel sense, where the first sense resource is another resource other than a resource in a cell in which the terminal is located and that is used by each terminal to perform data transmission; and sending first sense indication information to the terminal, where the first sense indication information is used to indicate the first sense resource. When the terminal performs sense on the first sense resource, another terminal in a same cell does not receive or send data on the first sense resource. If the terminal senses an interference signal, it can be determined that the interference signal is not an interference signal generated when the other terminal in this cell performs data transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yanchun Li, Mengyao Ma, Min Yan